Blackshear trial continues; Chelios to testify on Thursday

The trial of Justin Blackshear, who is alleged to have murdered Megan Soroka and Mark Barnard last January at Cheli's Chili in Detroit, continued with the reading of a shocking statement:

August 8, Detroit Free Press: Justin Blackshear said he saw a knife in the kitchen of Cheli's Chili Bar, grabbed it, started running and then started stabbing.

That was the version he gave police as to what happened Jan. 2, and his words were relayed Tuesday in Wayne County Circuit Court during the first day of the trial in the killings of employees Megan Soroka, 49, and Mark Barnard, 52.
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Detroit Police Homicide Investigator Barbara Simon said she took Blackshear's statement -- his last name is also spelled Blackshere in some documents -- after police arrested him at a relative's home. She read the statement in court Tuesday.

n the statement, Blackshear said he went to Cheli's before it opened Jan. 2 to talk to General Manager David Starzyk about getting his job back. Blackshear told Simon that Barnard told him to leave and pushed him and that Soroka told him to "get the hell out of here."

At one point, Blackshear said, he left the restaurant and came back in through a back door. He said Barnard shouted at him and walked away up a stairway. That's when he said he saw the kitchen knife.

Detroit Red Wings defenceman Chris Chelios is due to testify in court on Thursday, according to Detroit's WDIV Local 4.